Welcome aboard to new subscribers Megan and Ross of the UK. If any
reader knows of anyone who should also be a reader, please put them in
touch. Meanwhile, read on about bills in states, popular sites
providing coverage, and letters chock full of nuggets.
CONTENTS:
* CGO Conference
1. Movement Progress: Connecticut bill; Oregon bill
2. Good Press: Financial Times; Daily Kos, Freakonomics,
fivethirtyeight, After Downing Street, P2P Foundation, World Prout
3. News: Land clashes common with 153 indicted MPs
4. Numbers: Japan and America feel economic woes
5. Letters: Frambach, Gaffney, Aller, Fitzgerald, Campbell, Dodson, Wetzel
6. Obituary: Bob Drake
7. Likable links: youTube film list, ALLiance, Library of Congress,
Journal of American Culture, Louis Sullivan, NY Times archives,
David Bollier
8. What You Can Do: Wish Cathy well; Wish Cathy well; Order Just in time
for Summer! Challenge States in court; Teach online global course
9. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
10. Publication affairs: Contributors, About the Georgist News
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CLEVELAND OHIO, August 5 to 9, 2009, Council of Georgist Organizations
Conference Item from Sue Walton & Ted Gwartney, sns at swwalton.com,
April 17, 2009
We look forward to having you attend the 2009 Council of Georgist
Organizations Conference in Cleveland, Ohio August 5-9, 2009.
1) Be sure to register for the 2009 Conference as soon as possible,
by phoning the Downtown Doubletree Hotel, 111 Lakeside Ave East,
Cleveland, Ohio. Deadline for hotel reservations and early bird
rates is July 7th. Phone 1-800-222-TREE and say "Georgist Conference"
registration. We have already increased the number of hotel rooms we
are responsible for.
2) Welcome to Continental Airlines; our official airline for the 2009
CGO Conference! Continental is offering several discounts to
conference participants. You can use any Continental Airlines
ticketing facility or Meeting Works Reservations (800/468-7022). To
get the discount, you'll need the following codes:
Agreement Code: CJW88S; our Z code: ZFDX must be used.
3) The Council of Georgist Organizations is pleased to be a facebook
fan of the State of Ohio National History Day Winners from Shaker
Heights High School who have produced a 10 minute video. We have
invited the students and their teachers to our conference to show
their video. Watch this space for the exact time of their
presentation.
4) The Council of Georgist Organizations is going Green and needs to
update its email records so future conference announcements can be
sent via email. If you would like to remain on our list, please
contact us at: sns at swwalton.com
5) Are you on Facebook? Do you twitter? What other social media do you
use? Do you use Skype? If so,the CGO is collecting Skype & twitter
addresses and would like to post addresses at its upcoming 2009
conference. Please send your 'social media' info to: sns at
swwalton.com
To the editor: I liked your comments on movement building. This may be
a prime workshop for 2010. You, Alanna Hartzok, Lindy Davies, and Bill
Batt need to talk in Cleveland. Perhaps others might like to join in.
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1a. Movement Progress: Senator Andrea Stillman's effort in Connecticut
by Joshua Vincent, Executive Director, Henry George Foundation USA /
Center for the Study of Economics, Joshua at urbantools.org
May 13, 2009
This effort for a land value tax bill must pass, and Senator Stillman
is using the prestige of her office to make it happen. Comments always
welcomed and encouraged.
http://zip06.theday.com/blogs/new_london_times/archive/2009/05/12/...
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1b. Movement Progress: Another LVT bill in Oregon
As it has ever since the CGO met in Oregon in 1998, the state
legislature again has a bill to allow local option for shifting the
property tax. This session it was introduced by freshman Jules Bailey.
If you would like to thank him and urge a hearing for HJR 47, reach
him at Kopelbailey.Rep at state.or.us
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2a. Good Press: Anthony Werner's Letter in Financial Times
Via Carol Wilcox, May 01, 2009
Land value taxation helps the poor
Does fairer tax mean land value taxation?
Sir, Your article ("Treasury expects to lose billions as top earners
sidestep 50 per cent tax rate", Business, April 29) shows ...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6201049.ece
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2b. Good Press: Daily Kos gets plug for Michael Hudson
The multi-million daily hit blog, Kos (short for Constantine, a Greek
name) cited Michael Hudson on our neo-feudal economy
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/25/735270/-Michael-Hudson-on...
Michael Hudson notes: My articles get 15,000 hits each on Counterpunch
and Global Research, and then are picked up on other sites, translated
into Chinese, etc.
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2c. Good Press: Freakonomics Interview
by Michael Strong, CEO and Chief Visionary Officer, FLOW, Inc,
May 21, 2009
Jeff, my Freakonomics interview on my new book, "BE THE SOLUTION: How
Social Entreprenurs And Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All The
World's Problems" http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/...
includes a link to your "Green Tax Shift" material, "A green tax
shift, shifting taxes away from work, savings, and investment, and
toward taxing environmental harms."
http://www.progress.org/banneker/shift.html
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2d. Good Press: Robert Frank, blogger
by Richard C. Gerkin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biological
Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, May 21, 2009
Robert Frank, blogging on the popular political analysis website/blog
fivethirtyeight.com, has brought attention to geonomic policies:
www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/would-carbon-tax-make-higher-gasoline.html
He proposed a citizen's dividend as an alternative to the more
commonly discussed FICA tax cut to offset proposed higher gasoline
taxes. Either way, he says, shifting the tax burden off of productive
things and onto negative externalities will benefit everyone.
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2e. Good Press: After Downing Street
By Chip
The Real Source of Prosperity is the Human Soul ...
This would lead to money controlled by the people's elected government
and issued both for common needs, such as education, health care and
infrastructure, and as a citizens' dividend reflecting our fair share
in the bounty of our ... AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney... -
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
Another blogger for a citizens dividend is Michel Bauwens at P2P
Foundation » Blog Archive » Neotraditional economics (3 ... where he
writes, "Accordingly, a resource rent is collected on oil and other
resources and invested for the benefit of future generations, as well
as a portion being distributed as an annual citizens dividend.
(Interestingly, as Hartzok points out, ..." P2P Foundation -
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
Another is our own Josh Vincent, Executive Director of the Henry
George Foundation USA/Center for the Study of Economics in
Philadelphia, who wrote at Young Philly Politics ... citizens dividend
· depletion tax · Environment. When they drill, who pays the bill?
Pass the gas tax for protection of our land, water, ...
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2f. Good Press: Prof. Peter Vallentyne
Via Jason Bessey of Maine, May 3, 2009
Peter Vallentyne is a left-libertarian who teaches philosophy at the
University of Missouri at Columbia. In his paper, Left-Libertarianism
and Global Justice, in the conclusion he wrote:
"We have defended a version of Georgist left-libertarianism
according to which those who appropriate natural resources
are required to pay competitive rent for the value of the
rights they claim. This generates a fund of rent payments
that is to be divided among the citizens of the world."
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2g. Good Press: World Prout Assembly
By Editor
Citizens' Dividend, Income Guarantee, Social Wage, Citizens' Income,
Minimum Income Guarantee, State Bonus, Citizenship Income, Minimum
Income, Territorial Dividend, Citizens' Wage, Mincome, Unconditional
Basic Income (UBI) ... World Prout Assembly
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3. News: "Land clashes common with 153 indicted MPs"
To keep up with the latest in the world of economic justice, try
visiting the daily news site, The Progress Report. Here's a recent
sample article:
India Update -- Slumdog fame is no shelter when 1/4 of MPs face
criminal charges, as Gandhi's party wins. "Status quo victory, For all
India -- maybe" http://www.progress.org/2009/slumdogs.htm
Send the progress.org link to friends, family, neighbors, and
co-workers. Ideas advance when people pay attention to them, to their
proselytizers, and to their news sources. You have a limelight to
shine. Use it to draw attention to your own movement's sources. Once
it reaches critical mass, others will join our dialog. So spend your
attention effectively!
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4. Numbers: Japan and America feel economic woes
Want all the current indicators in one place? Periodically, The
Progress Report publishes just such an article:
Indicators look rosy for consumers -- at least for those who still
have a job or business or savings -- if official stats count. "Records
a half-century old fall" http://www.progress.org/2009/farmland.htm
More are viewable http://www.progress.org/
Bookmark it!
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5a. Letters: Locke or Mill?
By Willis A. (Bill) Frambach, WAFrambach at aol.com , May 10, 2009
"When the 'sacredness' of property is talked of, it should be
remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree
to landed property."
While we attribute the above to John Locke, I cannot find it in John
Locke's writings. Yet I did find it attributed John Stuart Mill. I
cannot find that Mill is citing Locke. Are we citing Mill and
attributing it to Locke? Our citation to Locke may be erroneous.
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5b. Letters: Taking your medicine, gladly
by Mason Gaffney, m.Gaffney at dslextreme.com, May 18, 2009
This could explain quite a few things ...
Interesting Medications from the past
Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of its time. Pope
Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded
Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.
Ed. Note: Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum Novarum which
opposed the tax on land value, the Roman Catholic Church being one of
the biggest land owners in the world. A longer list of prominent drug
users was circulated by Karl Williams of Australia, kwilliams at
rabbit.com.au.
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5c. Letters: Elliptical Jokes
By Pat Aller, May 01, 2009
Thanks, as always, Jeff, for GN. This issue was more elliptical than
usual; I wonder how many civilians get it. And, if I understood you,
you published as news a joke (or lie) in past. You should never do
that. Be a good boy scout from now on, please.
Editor's Reply: OK. Any lies you find, please point out, as they were
inadvertent. Jokes, however, such as quips at the end, have been a
mainstay since well before my reign. But they can go if others feel
the same. Will try harder to balance full disclosure and ellipsis
(eventho' elliptical is how many submissions arrive, meaning your
guess is as good as mine).
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5d. Letters: News From Down Under
by Karl Fitzgerald, Projects Coordinator, Earthsharing Australia
k2 at earthsharing.org.au, May 26, 2009
My google alerts on land tax and foreign investment brought me:
A blog piece on recent US housing policy: the absurdity of subsidizing
land and housing purchases through tax credits. Our experience here is
harrowing and will see over 140,000 youngsters manipulated into buying
at the top of our yet to bust market, leading to a $28m wealth divide
per annum.
Also of note: Our 2009 film competition is about to open with the
theme -- 'The Gentrification Game: the War on Creativity'. Check more
via www.iwanttolivehere.org.au for the $3000 first prize
Renegade Economists Radio -- our podcast numbers are growing strong,
with Michael Hudson booked in for an interview on June 10th. Listen to
our interviews listed with the Foldvary's, Hartzok's and Aussie
exclusives like rough nut Agent John.
Have you heard Hudson's excellent expose of the GFC and in the later
stages of the enthralling 60 minute interview he tears apart Marxism
like few others: the Financial Barbarians at the gate
There's nothing better to wash the dishes to than geo-commentary on
this crazed time.
Looking forward to meeting you all at the CGO.
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5e. Letters: IU Newsletter
by Megan Campbell, International Union (IU), office at theIU.org,
May 18, 2009
The IU's latest newsletter is available as a PDF attachment. At a time
when the IU is embarking on exciting projects, please continue your
support and look out for the new upcoming IU website featuring films
and articles to further the Georgist cause.
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5f. Letters: School of Cooperative Individualism update
Via Ed Dodson, ejdodson at comcast.net, May 3, 2009
To read the SCI latest news, contact Ed. at the above.
For anyone who would like a flavor of Harry Pollard's Interstudent
program, I have set up a page on the SCI website promoting the
program. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/interstudent.html
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5g. Letters: USBIG NEWSLETTER for Spring
The USBIG NEWSLETTER, Vol.10, No.52 Spring 2009, has articles on
recovering and sharing the rent-flows for oil and the atmosphere among
other interesting stories. To read a copy, please contact the editor,
Dr. Karl Widerquist, karl at widerquist.com.
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5h. Letters: PowerPoint on movement history available
People say a picture is worth ... I've assembled a few dozen photos on
our movement's history into a PowerPoint. I just gave a talk at a
local U using them. If you'd have use for them, just request a copy
(several already have).
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5i. Letters: Eco-village Occupation
By Dave Wetzel, davewetzel42 at googlemail.com, May 19, 2009
An eco-village occupation is being planned for Saturday June 6th. The
idea is to occupy a disused urban site in SW London near Hammersmith
and to start an eco-village community based on sustainable methods of
living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets, the works. If we
combine everyone's skills and talents we can make this thing happen.
So far contact has been made with Raven's Ait people (Phoenix) who is
very up for it as well as The Land Is Ours Campaign, who have pledged
their full support. Also Plane Stupid and other ecological groups have
been contacted with very positive feedback from each so it looks like
a good turn out is likely. There is a planning meeting on Saturday at
5PM at 100 Dukes Avenue Chiswick.
The land is everybody's.
Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, notes: Earth
Rights Institute has now joined forces with the major ecovillage
training center for Africa in Dakar, Senegal. Here is a draft of the
newly designed website for this:
http://gensenegal.org.previewyoursites.com
So ERI is now strongly positioned for ecological village training.
Here is the Ecovillage Design Education program, and you will be
pleased to know that it includes our tax policy:
http://www.gaiaeducation.org/docs/EV%20Design%20Curriculum.pdf
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6. Obituary: Bob Drake
by Kristopher McDowell & Andrew Delicata (manager of his wife, the
jazz singer Spider) Andrew at kristophermcdowell.com, May 13, 2009
I'm very sorry to report Spider Saloff's husband and record producer,
Bob Drake, passed away from of a massive heart attack early yesterday
morning at their home in Chicago. He was not ill. Bob founded
Kopasthetics Records to record her duo show with Ricky Ritzel called
'1938' in 1989. Spider is scheduled to appear at the 25th Annual MAC
Awards Monday night and she will dedicate the performance to his
memory.
In spite of this tragedy, Spider will be doing her scheduled
performances TONIGHT at Katerina's here in Chicago and in New York
over the next 2 weeks. She says Bob would have insisted upon it. Our
thoughts and prayers are with Spider in Chicago and in New York. We
appreciate your support for Spider in this challenging time.
Spider has requested no phone calls or flowers please. If you are
inclined to send something, Spider would be honored for any gifts in
memory of her late husband Bob Drake with a donation to their
favored charity. With a note saying "in memory of Bob Drake", please
send a check payable to "American Songbook Preservation Network" and
mail it to that organization or to c/o KMP, Inc., 3440 N Lake shore
Drive, Chicago, IL 60657. For cards and notes by snail mail you can
send to Spider directly: 4210 N. Hermitage, Chicago, IL.
Mostly Spider looks forward to seeing familiar and new faces at her
upcoming shows.
Note Sue Walton & Chuck Metalitz: Bob Drake was also a former Henry
George School of Chicago Instructor, Director of Education, and Board
President, and editor of the modernized abridged Progress & Poverty.
Memorial services will be held in June in Chicago. More information
will be available later in the month.
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7a. Likable link: Land Revenue youTube film list
by Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute; author, The
Earth Belongs to Everyone, recipient of the Radical Middle Book Award;
Alanna at earthrights.net; May 15, 2009
The first one lists them all on one page:
'A Cabaret Plate' with all The Renegade Economist's short films:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RenegadeEconomist&view=videos
Introduction to The Renegade Economist Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEyajN3rms0&feature=channel_page
Ricardo's Law - The Great Claw-Back Scam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkfmY1PMng
How Gordon Brown broke Britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sO25aFjDs&feature=channel_page
Boom Bust 'n Bankers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EWsHD-ZuJ8&NR=1
$45 Trillon Wealth Wipe Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nttuh8oHYw&feature=channel_page
Why Mugabe Killed a Nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSYlFwXmPqU&feature=channel_page
End of the Celtic Tiger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGygoQQnzs&feature=related
The Renegade Economist Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-9tuQ-Lcs&feature=channel_page
Lynn Twist - Money, Poverty, Women, Climate Change, Environment
http:/www.youtube.com/user/RenegadeEconomist?gl=GB&hl=en-GB
James Robinson -- It's Our Money Anyway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHs9xnuxLhU&feature=channel_page
Taxed to Death - Megan Campbell
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yue0Diuous&feature=channel_page
Six Minutes with the Renegade Economist - 13th Febr. 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOPwcoX9_HY&feature=channel_page
Six Minutes with the Renegade Economist - 20th Febr. 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct9a50F_Vq8&feature=channel_page
Weekly Talk Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpSDvE-gdDg&feature=channel_page
Six Minutes with the Renegade Economist - Michael Hudson Special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwAFohWBL4&feature=channel_page
Weekly Talk Show #5 - 10th April
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIchG14E6TY&feature=channel_page
The Michael Hudson Series - Part 1 - The Housing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruhSoS7J6M&feature=channel_page
The Michael Hudson Series - Part 2 - The Bailout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCmzdXzrIUY&feature=channel_page
The Michael Hudson Series #4 - Income Tax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAsyDM-rik&feature=channel_page
Documentary #1 - Gordon Brown's Cover up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqrBb-nRbs&feature=channel_page
Documentary #2 - Why "Nobody saw it coming"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2yxP9ceRI&feature=related
Documentary #3 - Casino Capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhR6I2hLWrw&feature=channel_page
Documentary #4 - Betrayal of the Lords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki-Od1MMa78&feature=channel_page
Property Bust after 14 years Boom-Fred Harrison, part 1
- narrative by Ed Dodson (?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3MyE16WBQ&NR=1
Property Bust after 14 years Boom-Fred Harrison, part 2
- narrative by Ed Dodson (?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCEhkJd0zB8&feature=related
Contact the Renegade Economist: contact at renegadeeconomist.com
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7b. Likable link: ALLiance a journal of theory and strategy
by Chris Lempa, A Journal of Mid-American Culture, chris at chrislempa.info
The second issue of ALLiance a journal of theory and strategy is now
available. Please help by sharing this document with your contacts -
both on the internet and in everyday life. Make copies of it. Change
it. Put your logo on the blank inside front/back covers. Manipulate
the source document and make it your own. Most importantly, consider
contributing to the next issue.
http://chrislempa.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/alliance-issue-2-is-here/
Editor's Note: A few stalwart Georgists, including Dr. Fred Foldvary,
already have.
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7c. Likable link: Library of Congress contains land tax debate
Want to see Fore Fathers debating taxing land well before the 19th c.
reformer Henry George? Visit http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Search on: HG, land tax, single tax, or whatever you fancy.
You'll find more history than you ever thought happened!
Reader and SCI Director Ed Dodson (above) notes: I've been there a few
times and have resurrected a couple things, with more on my hard drive
awaiting time to format and index them for the SCI website. This is a
valuable resource, no doubt about it.
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7d. Likable link: The Journal of American Culture
"Maligning Puck" is the title of an article in this scholarly journal
on reformer Henry George.
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7e. Likable link: Louis Sullivan, other great architect
Read about the devotion of famed architect Louis Sullivan (mentor of
another Georgist, Frank Lloyd Wright) to the cause of taxing site
values, not buildings or other human endeavors.
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7f. Likable link: Henry George's New York Funeral
Wyn Achenbaum, wyn at achenbaum.com, May 12, 2009
You might explore the NY Times archives, which are free for anything
published before about 1925. They emerge in PDF format, and you might
be able to extract photos of our movement from that.
I've got a folder with a number of items related to HG's funeral,
including items labeled: "four speakers," "HG Illustrated American
1897-11-13 front cover," "nyt funeral coverage," the catalfalque,
the crowds entering the grand palace ,the wonderful funeral of HG p1
while the body lay in state ...
Happy to share what I've got.
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7g. Likable link: Download David Bollier VIRAL SPIRAL
By Richard Biddle, Henry George School & Museum,
biddle19118 at yahoo.com, May 24, 2009
David Bollier's recent VIRAL SPIRAL is available as a download at
http://www.viralspiral.cc/sites/default/files/ViralSpiral.pdf
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8a. What You Can Do: Wish Cathy well
By Nadine Stoner, May 19, 2009
I got a phone call last week from Carl Shaw, who has been in frequent
contact with Cathy Orloff. He told me Cathy is a public school teacher
but she got cancer and is having radiation and chemotherapy. I
emailed Cathy. She says she has breast cancer and feels lucky to be
close to a good cancer hospital, has great health insurance through
the public school where she teaches, and has never used up her
generous sick-day allowance, so she has been able to stay home during
this treatment and not worry about money or correcting papers or
planning lessons. She hopes to go back to teaching in the fall, when
the chemo and radiation will be ending. She said it is OK to tell
people.
If you want to email your best wishes to Cathy, her email is
cathorloff at cox.net. If you want to phone your best wishes, her
phone number is 401-941-4764. If you would like to mail a get well
card to Cathy, her address is: 64 Crescent St., Providence, RI 02907
Well wishes from fellow Georgists can help make things a little more
bearable.
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8b. What You Can Do: Meet Dave Wetzel
by Dave Wetzel, CEO, Transforming Communities, Intl: +44 208 568 9004,
Mobile/Cellphone: Intl: +44 7715 32 29 26
davewetzel42 at googlemail.com, May 26, 2009
Heather and I will be in New York from 29th May to 6th June for a UN
conference on development in the current economic crisis, (together
with Alanna and others we are delegates from the International Union
for Land Value Tax). Anyone wishing to meet up, please get in touch.
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8c. What You Can Do: Order Just in time for Summer!
by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 90 John Street, Suite 501,
New York, NY 10038; Phone: 212-683-6424 Toll-free: 800-269-9555
Fax: 212-683-6454
See our Special Summer Offers, with discounts of up to 20% on select
titles, including a new edition of Henry George's classic work, The
Land Question, and The Earth Belongs to Everyone by Earth Rights
Institute co-director Alanna Hartzok. Discount prices valid through
August 31, 2009. http://www.schalkenbach.org/store.php
Coming to select theaters this Fall...
The End of Poverty? (www.theendofpoverty.net) is a hard-hitting and
moving film that investigates the question, "With so much wealth in
the world, why is there still so much poverty?" Directed by Philippe
Diaz; produced by Cinema Libre Studio and Robert Schalkenbach
Foundation. For the latest news and ideas about the film, see The End
of Poverty? blog at www.endpoverty.ning.com.
If you would like to learn more about Henry George or the Robert
Schalkenbach Foundation, or to see our complete online catalog, go to
www.schalkenbach.org.
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8d. What You Can Do: Challenge States in court
by Peter Meakin, mea44kin at iafrica.com, April 30, 2009
The South African Constitutional Property Rights Foundation has
excelled itself in failing to raise enough funds for the lawyers. Half
the problem is that the matter is difficult for donors to understand.
The other half is that Georgists are fine advocates but are reluctant
to help argue fundamental constitutional law in front of real judges!
I therefore challenge American, Europeans and Asian Georgists to each
match the US$15,000 we have raised so that this case can get to the
courts in 2009. For donations as charter members please go to
www.sacprif.org.
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8e. What You Can Do: Teach online global course
by Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute; author, The
Earth Belongs to Everyone, recipient of the Radical Middle Book Award;
Alanna at earthrights.net; May 15, 2009
There are now 346 people enrolled in the Land Rights and Land Value
Capture online course and program from 42 countries. We need more
course facilitators as we now will actively expand publicity about the
course. Please let me know if you are interested in facilitating a
class, or forming one for your friends and colleagues. The course has
now proven itself to be a very effective method of teaching the
Georgist economics paradigm with current day applications and
concerns.
The course is also being used to develop grassroots movements via what
we call "Pilot LVT Implementation Projects" now underway in South
Africa, Nigeria, and Vanuatu.
Also, the course is easily modified. If you have suggestions for
improvement please let me know.
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9. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
The only good thing that can be said about Democrats is that, when
they are in power, the Republicans are not.
-- Fred Reed
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that
gets all the publicity. But then -- we elected them.
-- Lily Tomlin
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Secondly, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
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10. Publication affairs: Contributing to this issue
Along with those acknowledged above with each blurb,
Editor: Jeffery J. Smith
Assistant Editor: Caspar Davis
Archivist: Stewart Goldwater
Owner: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
Founder: Adam Monroe
Send your news and other interesting material to the Georgist News,
jjs at geonomics.org or gn at progress.org. The deadline for the next
issue is June 25.
The Georgist News, a project of Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, is an
email newsletter brought to you free of charge. Its purpose is to keep
you updated on the latest news, citations, events, and initiatives of
relevance to people who, like Henry George, seek a world free from
special privilege and the causes of poverty.
Do you know someone who'd enjoy reading the GN? Please forward them an
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it's free. Thanks.
The Georgist News is also available on line at
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